River
Samara River
320 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Dnieper Reservoir
In numbers
Length
320km
Average flow
17m³/s
Basin
22,600km²
Drop
65m
from 114 m to 49 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
320 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 114 m
- 3 kmStaromlynivs'ke Vodoskhovyshche1.7 km²
- 7 kmStaromlynivka3,373 people
- 25 kmVelyka Novosilka5,235 people
- 121 kmPokrovske9,868 people
- 164 kmVasylkivka12,028 people
- 200 kmTernivkatributary
- 212 kmPavlohrad101,430 people
- 220 kmMezhyrich4,174 people
- 222 kmMalaya Ternovkatributary
- 232 kmVovchatributary
- 270 kmZarichne6,191 people
- 277 kmCherkaske4,116 people
- 294 kmSamar70,550 people
- 305 kmTatarkatributary
- 309 kmKil'chen'tributary
- 313 kmIhren22,118 people
- 315 kmNyzhnodniprovsk160,123 people
- 320 kmDnieper Reservoirat 49 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine, a tributary of the Dnieper
At the mouth it carries 17 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 147 seconds. It drops from 114 m to 49 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 22,600 km², about the size of BZ. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- NyzhnodniprovskLargest city on its banks · 160,123 people
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Samara River, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 22 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Samara River: the basin in numbers
22,701 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 67/km²people per km²
- 138maverage altitude of the basin
- 528mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.7°Caverage air temperature
- 0.7%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 71% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Samara River: what you find on the way
- 14Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 1Ferry piers
- 7Marinas
- 4River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Samara River in our other atlases
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Staromlynivs'ke Vodoskhovyshchekm 31.7km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Samara River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (9)
Also: Byk, Ternivka, Kil'chen', Malaya Ternovka, Hnyloucha, Viazivok, Tatarka, Tchaplyna
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1047677) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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